From: Lavolta Press<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] textile pattern of Charles de Blois pourpoint
To: "Historical Costume"<[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 9:35 PM
On 5/12/2010 12:29 PM, Zuzana Kraemerova wrote:
Fran, I think you're a bit exaggerating. I have no
problems buying the book if that's your concern. I just
didn't know in which book the pattern is. None the less,
it's in more books I guess (I heard in some Ospreys)...so
hard to say who is the original author of the graphic.
It is more than probable that I soon go and buy the
book.
I have many costume books at home and I have no
trouble paying for quality, your books are in my library
too. I don't know what's the big deal in copying one single
page. I often want to see a couple of pages of the book
before I decide to buy it.
Many students wouldn't be able to study if they hadn't
milions of copies of books and excerpts etc. For example
when you learn singing, you always get the sheet music
copied. Only when you sing on a concert, you have to own the
original sheet music.
It is not someone else's prerogative to give away a
copyright holder's work without their permission on the
grounds that it may sell something. And, if someone
can't afford a book or excerpt, that does not mean they have
a right to it.
To cut short the usual circular defenses of the world's
"right" to get for free the hard work and investments of
authors, publishers, editors, graphic artists, illustrators,
translators, and all others who want copyrighted work for
free, I've taken to just emailing the author or publisher,
explaining their work is being offered for free, asking if
they gave permission and giving them the emails of the
people involved. Which I just did.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
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